Time 100 Must-Read Books of 2021
Time has selected their 100 must-read books of 2021, selecting titles that “shifted our perspectives, uncovered essential truths and encouraged us forward.” Works of genre interest include:
- 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, Ai Weiwei (Crown)
- The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki (Viking)
- The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, Wole Soyinka (Pantheon)
- Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
- Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
- Dear Sethuran, Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead)
- Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters (One World)
- Everyone Knows You Mother Is a Witch, Rivka Galchen (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
- The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
- Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
- Hell of a Book, Jason Mott (Dutton)
- How the Word Is Passed, Clint Smith (Little, Brown)
- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
- The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles (Viking)
- The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Harper)
- The Man Who Lived Underground, Richard Wright (Harper Perennial)
- Matrix, Lauren Groff (Riverhead)
- Milk Fed, Melissa Broder (Scribner)
- My Year Abroad, Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead)
- One Friday in April, Donald Antrim (Norton)
- One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- Orwell’s Roses, Rebecca Solnit (Viking)
- Our Country Friends, Gary Shteyngart (Random House)
- Pilgrim Bell, Kaveh Akbar (Graywolf)
- Poet Warrior, Joy Harjo (Norton)
- Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor (Tordotcom)
- The Rib King, Ladee Hubbard (Amistad)
- Second Place, Rachel Cusk (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
- Seek You, Kristen Radtke (Pantheon)
- Somebody’s Daughter, Ashley C. Ford (Flatiron)
- Something New Under the Sun, Alexandra Kleeman
- Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon (MCD)
- The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris (Little, Brown)
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders (Random House)
- The Trees, Percival Everett (Graywolf)
- There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, Kikuko Tsumura (Bloomsbury)
- Until Proven Safe, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
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